THE SMITHS Meat Is Murder U.S. Allied Pressing SIRE ROUGH TRADE 1985 NICE
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Beautiful copy of the U.S. first pressing of The Smiths Meat Is Murder 1985 Sire/Rough Trade Records.Vinyl glossy and clean with a few light marks that do not affect play. EX/VG++ condition. Cover in like new shape, EX, a few small creases near the spine. Allied pressing according to matrix runout.

Tracklist

A1The Headmaster Ritual4:52A2Rusholme Ruffians4:19A3I Want The One I Can't Have3:13A4What She Said2:40A5That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore4:57B1How Soon Is Now?6:43B2Nowhere Fast2:35B3Well I Wonder4:00B4Barbarism Begins At Home6:55B5Meat Is Murder6:02

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Amazon Studios
  • Recorded At – Ridge Farm Studios
  • Mixed At – Island Studios
  • Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – ?8793
  • Pressed By – Allied Record Company
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company
  • Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company
  • Published By – Morrissey / Marr Songs, Ltd.
  • Marketed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Credits

  • Bass – Andy Rourke
  • Drums – Mike Joyce
  • Engineer – Stephen Street
  • Guitar, Piano, Music By – Johnny Marr
  • Layout [Sleeve Layout] – Caryn Gough
  • Mastered By – Tim Young
  • Producer – The Smiths
  • Vocals, Sleeve, Lyrics By – Morrissey

Notes

Allied Pressing with label variation: 1) "SIRE®" appears to right of Sire logo; 2) rim text along bottom reads "Sire Records Company - Marketed by Warner Bros. Records, Inc. - 3300 Warner Blvd. , Burbank, Calif. 91510 - Made in U.S.A."

"SLM ?" in the runout etching indicates that the lacquer disc was processed at, and the metal parts used to manufacture the record were made at Sheffield Lab Matrix.

Rear and inner sleeves omit "How Soon Is Now?"

Recorded at Amazon Studios, Liverpool and Ridge Farm, Surrey.
Mixed at Island Studios, London, Winter 1984.
Cover star culled from Emile de Antonio's "In the Year of the Pig."
Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

1st cat number label; 2nd sleeve

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 7599-25269-1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout, Etched, exc. ?, variant 1): 1 25269 A RE1-SH4 ? B-20665-Re1-SH4 SLM ?8793 1-2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout, Etched, exc. ?, variant 1): 1 25269 B RE1 SH2 ? B-20666-Re1-SH2 SLM ?8793-X 1-2
  • Other (Both sides, Embossed near spindle hole): A
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout, variant 2): 1 25369 A RE1 SH3 ? B-20665-Re1 SH3 SLM ?8793 1-1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout, variant 2): 1 25369 B RE1 SH3 ? B-20666-Re1-SH3 SLM ?8793-X 1-1
  • Rights Society: BMI



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